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The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

Professor Dustmann and Dr Otten are coauthors in the first report in CEPR's Monitoring International Integration series, Europe's Trust Deficit: Causes and Remedies. They analyse the roots of the decline in trust in both national and European political institutions, as reflected in the rise of populist politics.

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Dr Michael Rauber joined E.CA Economics in December 2014 after three years in the Chief Economist team at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and, more recently, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Michael has extensive experience in competition economics and was previously the assistant director of the CMA’s research and evaluation unit.

Prior to that he was a consultant advising clients on a wide range of economic issues and econometrics in PwC’s economics practices in London and Berlin. Michael holds a doctoral degree from the University of Konstanz with a focus on empirical economics.